Priorities for 6.10

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:59:47PM +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
> 
> Will there be buildbots, and a buildbot report and release cycle discussion
> list for HLP, to help raise the standards of HLP beyond hackage toward
> that of extralibs?

There will be whatever people set up! That all sounds great; if you're
interested in setting it up then perhaps you can co-ordinate with Duncan
and Don?

It's possible that we will build HLP as part of the GHC nightly builds,
after doing the build of GHC+bootlibs itself. However, if we do then we
will ignore failures, i.e. if (part of) HLP fails then the build will
still be marked as a success. We can try to get the output e-mailed
somewhere, though.

> Also, if GHC keeps in sync with HC&A,

As far as I know, GHC is not trying to keep in sync with HC&A. We have
settled into a routine of aiming for a major release around ICFP (not
for any particularly good reason, but because a 1 year release cycle
seems to fit in well with the way that development works), so we are
keeping level by coincidence.


Thanks
Ian